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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2005

  World Health Organization, 2005

  The 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) report on tuberculosis control is based on data received from 199 countries. Findings show that TB incidence is rising slowly but prevalence and death rates are falling; however, prevalence, deaths and incidence have all been rising in Africa, particularly in those countries with the highest rates of HIV infection.
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  Drug use and HIV vulnerability policy research study in Asia

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  This study, from UNAIDS, explores how national drug control and public health policies could facilitate or prevent the implementation of interventions to reduce HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). The study looks specifically at China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Assessment of resources, best practices and gaps in gender science and technology in the Asia Pacific Region

  United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Jakarta Office, 2002

  The APGEST scanning project, "Assessment of Resources, Best Practices and Gaps in Gender Science & Technology in the Asia Pacific Region" was conducted in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Korea, Mongolia, Fiji, Kiribati and Samoa, and aimed to produce a knowledge base of initiatives that promote access by poor women to scientific and technological expertise, to identify ke
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Home sweet home? Codes for homeworkers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Homeworkers are mostly (up to 90 percent) women - the invisible workforce in global production chains. They machine garments, weave cloth, solder electronics, process food, make parts for cars, or pack goods. At best homeworkers face uncertainty regarding employment or social protection; at worst they are specifically excluded.

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